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Saturday 11 October 2014

Sci-Fi’s Hottest New Writer Won’t Tell You the Sex of Her Characters

Sci-Fi’s Hottest New Writer Won’t Tell You the Sex of Her Characters

In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Ann Leckie talks about creating a plausible future free of any incongruous modern trappings for her award-winning book Ancillary Justice.


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Polish town builds a $14,000 statue in honor of Wikipedia



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Japanese court tells Google to delete search results linking a man to crime



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Withings adds support for HealthKit to several devices and Health Mate app





Fitbit may not have any plans to offers support for Apple's HealthKit platform anytime soon, but another smart devices company, Withings, is jumping in full force to add support to HealthKit, including a new version of its Health Mate app for the iPhone and iPad.


The actual device support includes the company's Smart Body Analyzer, the Pulse O2 fitness band, the Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor and the Aura sleep tracker. The Health Mate app has also been updated to synch its data from Health Mate's Profile screen to the HealthKit app. Touch ID support for securing that data has also been added.


More updates are in the works including adapting the app so it works better on the larger iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screens. Do you use any of Withing's products with your iOS device?

























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I wish I could Iive 200 more years to see a scene like this

I wish I could Iive 200 more years to see a scene like this


I like Johnson Ting's vision of Neo Japan 2202, wherever his Neo Japan is located to have two moons (or maybe one is no moon but some space station, I don't know.) Every time I see illustrations like this I long for immortality. Or at least a couple hundred years in good health so I ca see some stuff like this.


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Beautiful long exposure photo of the lunar eclipse rising over China

Beautiful long exposure photo of the lunar eclipse rising over China


NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is featuring this long exposure photo of the lunar eclipse rising over the city of Chongqing, China, captured by photographer Zhou Yannan on October 8. The zooming tail effect as the Moon went out of the eclipse is fantastic.


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Photos of regular soldiers transformed into cool futuristic warriors

Photos of regular soldiers transformed into cool futuristic warriors


Johnson Ting creates these amazing images by painting new layers on top of existing photographic material using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet and Photoshop. The results sometimes end being completely different from the original, and they are always impressive.


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First look at the new Guardians of the Galaxy animated TV series

First look at the new Guardians of the Galaxy animated TV series


This is great news, just announced this Friday at New York Comic Con: Marvel is releasing a Guardians of the Galaxy animated TV series coming in 2015 on Disney XD! Check out the first sequences of how it is going to look here (I like that colorful 80s look!)


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